Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 1516. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Papal Coinage. Alexander VIII. 1689-1691. AR Testone (9.11 g, 12h). Giovanni Hamerani, engraver. Rome mint. Dated RY 1 and MDCXC (1690). Bust right, wearing camauro, mozetta, and stole; HAMERANVS below bust; AD in incuse square on shoulder / Yoked team of oxen pulling plow right; grain ear to left and right; date and Patrizi coat-of-arms in exergue. CNI XIV 27; Muntoni 16; Berman 2176. EF, toned.